Miller said players who have suffered Achilles injuries gave him more advice about staying positive mentally than they have about the physical aspects of recovering. “Everyone I talked to pretty much had the same message: It was going to be a long road. It was going to be tough,” Miller said. “That was one of the reasons I tried to stay around the team as much as possible, just to stay involved and keep my mind off of things, stay in the team atmosphere. I feel like the team did a great job of helping me get through it. It was just little things like that, staying positive and attacking every day as if it’s a game.”